Keisuke Tsuboi

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Keisuke Tsuboi
坪井 慶介
Personal information
Full name Keisuke Tsuboi[1]
Date of birth (1979-09-16) 16 September 1979 (age 44)
Place of birth Tama, Tokyo, Japan
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1995–1997 Yokkaichi Chuo
Technical High School
1998–2001 Fukuoka University
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2014 Urawa Red Diamonds 292 (1)
2015–2017 Shonan Bellmare 28 (0)
2018–2019
Renofa Yamaguchi
 28 (0)
Total 348 (1)
International career
2003–2007 Japan 40 (0)
Medal record
Urawa Red Diamonds
Winner AFC Champions League 2007
Winner J1 League 2006
Runner-up J1 League 2004
Runner-up J1 League 2005
Runner-up J1 League 2007
Runner-up J1 League 2014
Winner J.League Cup 2003
Runner-up J.League Cup 2002
Runner-up J.League Cup 2004
Runner-up J.League Cup 2011
Runner-up J.League Cup 2013
Winner Emperor's Cup 2005
Winner Emperor's Cup 2006
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Keisuke Tsuboi (坪井 慶介, Tsuboi Keisuke, born 16 September 1979) is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a defender.[2]

Club career

Tsuboi was educated at and played for Yokkaichi Chuo Technical High School and Fukuoka University.

After graduating from the university in 2002, he joined Urawa Red Diamonds and immediately broke into the first team. His first appearance came on 3 March 2002 against Yokohama F. Marinos in opening game in 2002 season. He scored his first league goal on 17 May 2003 against Gamba Osaka. He won the Rookie of the Year award in 2002 and was selected as one of the J.League Best Eleven in 2003. In 2006, Reds won the champions in J1 League which is first J1 champions in the club history. In 2007, Reds won first Asian title AFC Champions League. Although he played many matches as regular center back until 2010, he could not play many matches from 2011.

In 2015, Tsuboi moved to Shonan Bellmare.[3] However he could not play many matches and Bellmare was relegated to J2 League end of 2016 season. In 2018, he moved to J2 club Renofa Yamaguchi FC.[4]

International career

Tsuboi represented Japan for the 2001 Summer Universiade held in Beijing where the team won the title beating Ukraine in the final.

Japan's national coach

Australia and Brazil.[5] In Japan's first match against Australia, he suffered from cramps in his both thighs and had to be replaced by Teruyuki Moniwa
in the 56th minute.

He was also in the squad for 2007 Asian Cup but did not play any game in the tournament as Yuki Abe and Yuji Nakazawa were the first-choice centre backs.

On 8 February 2008, he announced retirement from international football.[6] He played 40 games for Japan until 2007.[5]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition[7][8]
Club Season League Emperor's Cup League Cup Champions League Other[a] Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Fukuoka University 1999 – 3 0 – – – 3 0
Urawa Red Diamonds 2002 30 0 1 0 8 0 – – 39 0
2003 30 1 1 0 11 0 – – 42 1
2004 14 0 1 0 0 0 – – 15 0
2005 33 0 5 0 2 0 – – 40 0
2006 27 0 2 0 1 0 – 1 0 31 0
2007 31 0 1 0 0 0 12 0 4 0 48 0
2008 21 0 2 0 6 0 4 0 – 33 0
2009 29 0 1 0 7 0 – – 37 0
2010 31 0 4 0 3 0 – – 38 0
2011
 5 0 3 0 2 0 – – 10 0
2012
 33 0 1 0 1 0 – – 35 0
2013
 7 0 2 0 1 0 2 0 – 12 0
2014
 1 0 1 0 1 0 – – 3 0
Shonan Bellmare 2015 8 0 1 0 6 1 – – 15 1
2016 15 0 1 0 4 0 – – 20 0
2017 5 0 2 0 – – – 7 0
Renofa Yamaguchi
 2018 23 0 1 0 – – – 24 0
2019 5 0 1 0 – – – 6 0
Career total 348 1 34 0 53 1 18 0 5 0 458 2
  1. ^ Includes Japanese Super Cup and FIFA Club World Cup.

International

Appearances and goals by national team and year[5]
National team Year Apps Goals
Japan 2003 11 0
2004 10 0
2005 7 0
2006 11 0
2007 1 0
Total 40 0

Honours

Urawa Reds

Shonan Bellmare

Individual

References

  1. ^ "2006 FIFA World Cup Germany: List of Players: Japan" (PDF). FIFA. 21 March 2014. p. 16. Archived from the original (PDF) on 10 June 2019.
  2. ^ Keisuke Tsuboi at J.League (archive) (in Japanese) Edit this at Wikidata
  3. ^ Shonan Bellmare(in Japanese)
  4. ^ Renofa Yamaguchi FC(in Japanese)
  5. ^ a b c d Japan National Football Team Database
  6. ^ "Tsuboi offered something different in Japan's defence". A View From A Brit by Jeremy Walker. 11 February 2008. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
  7. ISBN 978-4905411529
    (p. 231 out of 289)
  8. ISBN 978-4905411338
    (p. 69 out of 289)

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